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DEVICE EOE AND METHOD 0E EOEMING DEAID TEIMMING.

No. 256,895. Patented Apr.25, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID HENIUS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SAMUEL BERNSTEIN, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR AND METHOD OF FORMING BRAID TRIMMING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,895, dated April 25, 1882.

Application filed January 3, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented anew and useful Improvementin Uniting OordsfortheFormation ofBraidsand Trimmings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making part o'f this specification.

1o Thekind of braid and trimming to which my invention is applicable is composed of two or more cords laid side byside and sewed together to form a braid or trim ming equal in thickness to the thickness ofone of the cords and in width to as many times the thickness as there are cords thus united. Since various colors may be combined by the employment of cords of different colors, this method of making braids and trimmingsis capable of producing avariety of ornazo mental effects for many ornamental and useful applications; but heretofore, so farv asl am aware, the cords have been united by handsewing only, which is slow, and makes the manufacture expensive, thereby greatly limiting' the use of the article.

I have devised a method of sewing together cords for this class of manufacture, which is very simple, easy, and rapid, whereby the braid and trimmings are very cheaply made, only a very little more costly than the cords of which they are composed, which, however, may bev of as rich and expensive material as desired and correspondingly beautiful; and in carrying out my improved method I have invented a simple attachment to a sewing-machine for sewing together the cords. My improved method consists in moving the cords that compose the braid or other trimming through a guide which holds them one upon another in proper position for ,uniting, and in guiding the needle which sews the cords together accurately in such relation to the cord-guide as to pass the thread uniformly through the middle of the several cords edgewise of the braid. This method insures a very regular union of the cords and makes an exceedingly perfect braid or trimming of regular and uniform surface in addition to the enhanced cheapness of the article.

5o My improved device for carrying out this method consists in a grooved guide for contain- Be it known that I, DAVID HENIUs, of the ing and holding the cords in position to be attached to the presser-bar of a sewing-machine in place of the usual presser-foot ot' the sewing-machine, this guide to have a hole or notch through which the needle passes to sew the cords together, and a groove or slotvin its under surface of proper width and form to hold the proper thickness of cord and afford suffi- -cient friction to the cords as they are moved 6o longitudinallythrough the groove to keep them firmly in position and allow a steady and uuiform feed motion thereof, and of proper depth to nearly contain the number ot' cords to be united, but to cause the lower cord to project below the guide far enough to enable the feedplate or feeding-surface of the sewing-machine to feed the united cords along as fast as they are sewed together, in the manner of feeding cloth along, and without any additional device 7o therefor. Thus a simple guide made of a single piece and taking the place of the presser-foot of a sewing-machine, and therefore attachable and detachable by turning a single screw, is all the additional mechanism required for performing this process.

rllhe accompanying drawings represent my improved guide attachment for this purpose and illustrate the method of uniting the cords.

Figure l shows a longitudinal vertical sec- 8o tion of the guide, showing also the adjacent part of the sewing-machine table in section and a. part ofthe needle of the machine in position for sewing, also parts of two 'cords in the guide to be sewed together;.Fig. 2, a front view of the guide attachment with the two cords therein; Fig. 3, a portion ot' the united braid or trimming of two cords; Fig. 4f, a portion of the braid of three cords; and Fig. 5, an ornament composed of two or more kinds 9o of the braid, illustrating one of many modes of applying the product.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in the several gures.

A indicates the compound braid or trimming 9 5 united by sewing, and B B indicate the separate cords of which it is composed. The cordguide O has a slotted or notched stock, a, formed to t or embrace the lower end of the presser-bar of the sewing-machine just as the ico presser-foot is attached thereto, and it may have the general form ot' the presser-foot, the place of which it takes, except that it is made 'much deeper to admit the deep groove l) in its lower side, in which the cords are held and guided. The width of this groove obviously should vary to suit the size of cords used, and also the depth should vary to suit both the number and size of cords used. Where great variety of the'product is required numbers of these attachments should be provided, which is done with little eXpense, since each guide may cost but little. A suitable hole is made down through the guide', as shown in Fig. l, for the passage ofthe needle E, which is guided in its motions down centrally through the cords B B. The feed-plate of the sewing-machine, located as at D, Fig. l, acts on the slightly-projecting lower surface of the lower cord B to i'eed all the cords composing the braid along, just as it feeds cloth along. p

Fig. 5 shows the ornament composed of twocord braid F and three-cord braid G of this product. This, however,onlyillustrates a single mode of applying this product, which is capable of numberless forms and combinations.

Grooves have been formed in the presserfoot or other attachment of a sewing-machine for holding cords and braids to cloth while sewing them thereto; but such grooves are mere guides to position, and are incapable ot' holding two or more cords therein, one above 4 another, and they are therefore totally unable for the purposes alluded to above-in fact, a groove that will hold more than one cord at at a time, while being only wide enough to hold a single cord laterally. Besides, this guide requires a groove of such depth that the feedplate of the sewing-machine will take hold of the lower cordrand feed it along without the intervention et" cloth, whereas grooved presserfeet heretofore used have only been adapted to holding the cord or braid on the cloth while the latter is fed along.

Vhat I claim as'myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1.Y The method of forming braid trimmings herein shown and described, which consists in laying cords together, one above the other, feeding said cords through a grooved guide, which keeps t-hcm accurately together, and sewing centrally through the said cords, substantially' as herein speciiied.

2. A guide, C, adapted to be applied as a presser-footto a sewing-machine, provided with a groove, b, ot' the proper width to hold one thickness of cord, and of a depth sufficient to hold two or more cords, as required, and to allow one cord to project below the same, so that the feed device may act on it and vmove the cords along, and with a vertical hole which admits the needle through the middle of the several cords, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

DAVID HENIUS.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, C. SEDGWIGK. 

